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...that I could not find in the Episcopal Church the absolute and consistent principles and genuine authority so essential for true religion and for the imposition of my moral bond." Divorced twelve years ago and a grandfather, Price said, "I don't believe I can be a priest." Instead, he said, he would have to "start looking...
Catholicism was the state religion under the kings, but few in the royal house were steady communicants. Italians recall that the late Queen Elena enjoyed telling ribald stories about priests, and some even insist that Victor Emmanuel III, on one of the infrequent occasions when he attended Mass, got mixed up at the holy water font and seemed to think he must wash his hands there. To be a Communist is, by decree of the Vatican, a mortal sin, but in some Italian towns the best place to find the leading Communists together is at Sunday Mass. And Catholics...
Gerard Manley Hopkins thought of himself as a priest rather than a poet. In his Victorian lifetime, he never saw his poems in print. Ironically, today, when a shelf full of books have been written about him, it is the poet and not the priest that the world chiefly remembers...
...feel that poetry must always be immediately intelligible. He wanted his poetry "to explode" into meaning after several readings. And he realized that his, like all good poetry, should be read aloud: "Take breath and read it with the ears . . . and my verse comes all right." As a Jesuit priest, Hopkins held down half a dozen posts before being assigned, in the last years of his life, to Dublin's University College as professor of Greek...
Most of the links prove to be rusty or broken. His old employer is dead. And the employer's daughter, a girl who longed to marry well, has settled for a cheap cardsharp. The local priest is a sly opportunist, and the villagers are clamped in the narrow vise of ignorance...